{"product_id":"ethiopia-sidama-alo-74158-anaerobic-washed-grade-1-signature-series","title":"Ethiopia | Sidama Alo | 74158 Anaerobic Washed Grade 1 | Signature Series","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"mb-1 font-weight-bold\"\u003eTamiru Tadesse \u0026amp; Alo Coffee\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-6\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTamiru Tadesse grew up in Bensa and set up Alo Coffee to process and export the cherry grown by the farming families around his home village. In 2021 his coffee took first place at the Ethiopia Cup of Excellence, and since then Alo lots have become some of the most sought-after Ethiopian coffees in specialty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlo village is Tamiru's processing base. Neighbouring smallholders deliver hand-picked cherry to the station, where it is sorted, processed and dried under his team's supervision. This lot came to us as a 15kg vacuum-sealed exclusive lot, graded Grade 1 and cupped at 87.75 points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"mb-1 font-weight-bold\"\u003eBensa, Sidama\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-6\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBensa sits in the eastern highlands of the Sidama region in southern Ethiopia. Alo is among the highest coffee-growing villages in the country, at around 2,400 metres. At that elevation cherry ripens slowly in cool air, which builds sugar and dense, layered acidity in the bean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the export market these coffees trade as Sidamo, the long-standing name for the region. Bensa has become one of the most celebrated pockets within it, and lots from this area have regularly placed at the top of the Ethiopia Cup of Excellence in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"mb-1 font-weight-bold\"\u003eAbout the Anaerobic Washed Process\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-6\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnaerobic washed starts the same way as a classic washed coffee: ripe cherry is sorted, floated to remove defects, and pulped. The difference is the fermentation. Instead of sitting in open tanks, the pulped coffee is sealed in tanks with the oxygen shut out. Without oxygen, different microbes do the work and the ferment slows right down, building aromatics an open tank won't produce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe coffee is then washed clean of its mucilage and dried on raised beds, so it keeps the clarity of a washed coffee rather than the heavy fruit of a natural. In this lot that shows up as yellow pear and lime, with white tea and white florals, and a body that thickens with gentle tea-like tannins as it cools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"mb-1 font-weight-bold\"\u003eAbout the JARC 74158 Variety\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-6\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e74158 is one of the selections released by the Jimma Agricultural Research Center (JARC), Ethiopia's national coffee research institute. Researchers collected seed from native coffee forests in the 1970s and selected the most resilient and productive trees, releasing them under numbered names. 74158 is one of those selections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has since become one of the most prized varieties in Sidama, and especially in Bensa, where it has produced several Cup of Excellence winners. Growers value it for its consistency at very high altitude. Roasters chase it for a delicate, Gesha-like profile: florals, citrus and a tea-like finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat character is exactly what this lot delivers. The anaerobic ferment adds depth and body without burying 74158's clarity, so the pear, lime and white florals stay bright and well defined. 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